-You guys, our first guest tonight is
a Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum musician.
Her makeup line GXVE Beauty is available now.
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At Sephora and gxvebeauty.com.
She also returns as a coach on the new season of "The Voice,"
which premieres September 19th at 8:00 p.m. on NBC.
Let's take a look. -I have toured the world.
I know how to do this show. And it's kind of a two for one
'cause I'll just ask him if I have questions.
[ Laughter ] So it's fine either way.
-You wish. You wish.
-Anyways, I thought you did a great job.
And I would love to coach you
if you want to be over here on Team Gwen.
-Please welcome back to the show
our friend Gwen Stefani, everybody.
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Welcome back!
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-This is so --
I feel like the last couple of years just evaporated.
It's been like two years. -I know.
Well, we've seen each other on Zoom.
You've been kind enough to do the show that way.
But it's been three years since you've been here in person.
-Three years, oh, my gosh. -It's so nice to have you back.
-That's so crazy. -How has your summer been?
I know you were on the road with Blake. How's that?
-It's been really fun.
And it's something I never thought would ever happen to me.
We actually -- He invited me to be on a couple of his tracks.
A couple duets or whatever.
And they went to number one country radio, so --
-Yeah. I guess you wouldn't have predicted even 10 years ago --
-I wouldn't predicted ever meeting Blake Shelton,
let alone being on the road with him and hopping on his stage.
It's been really fun. -And so, obviously, Blake --
I feel like Blake and No Doubt maybe have different fan bases.
But are there times -- Does he --
-You'd be surprised. -Yeah.
-We're definitely cross-pollinating.
-That's good. -Yeah.
-Do you ever do any of your songs
when you're on the road with Blake? -You know what?
He asks me to do songs all the time.
And I'm like, "It's not my stage."
Like, "This is so awkward."
Like I'm forcing myself like, "I want some attention.
Let me be on your --" It's not.
But he wants me to come on.
And sometimes I'll do, like, "Don't Speak."
-Yeah. -And it's pretty incredible
to be able to have a song that you get out there and you think,
"Do they know me? Are they going to be like, 'Why is she here?'"
Then they know all the words.
You're like, "Oh, my God. This is crazy."
-That's great. I mean, I guess with songs
that iconic, they do cross over, you know,
all genre of fan I guess. -That song is just --
it's that song that just went everywhere.
-And I would imagine you might be thinking,
"I'm not here to steal your focus."
But I would imagine an audience loses their mind
when they think, "I'm lucky enough I'm getting two for one."
-Well, I feel like -- We were up in, like, Canada,
somewhere I never even heard of. And I'm like --
I wasn't even going to go up. I'm like, "Not today."
I was like, "How do I not?" You know?
I'm never going to be there again, so I do it.
-Do you get worried when you've never heard of a place
that you're going to be like, "Are you ready to rock?"
and then forget the name of the place?
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-All the time.
I'm scared I'm going to forget
your name right now at this point.
[ Laughter ] -Just say, "Hey, buddy."
I respond to that really well. -Okay.
-So, you have not done a couple seasons of "The Voice."
But the last one you did, you won.
-Winner! Yep. -Yeah, congratulations.
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Do you feel more relaxed having a win like that,
a recent win under your belt?
-Winning is fun.
I think the thing -- The way I won was amazing
because I actually had a 14-year-old boy.
And he was a one-chair turn.
So, these ears heard a star.
-Wow. -Yeah.
-That's really nice. -It was cool.
And he turned 15 on the show.
And, you know, when you see him now, his name is Carter Rubin.
Check him out. He's incredible.
He's just grown before my eyes like he's my kid.
And he's blossomed, and --
So yeah, I mean, we don't really win.
It's them who win. But it was really fun to coach him.
-I don't know. You definitely said "winner"
real quick and did this thing. -That is true.
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-I really feel like you're changing the narrative.
And we were all here when you did that.
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-It does feel good to have one under my belt when I go back.
There's no way to compete with Blake Shelton.
-Yes. But it must be nice, yeah.
-It's fun to rub it in when I come back, yeah.
-He seems very -- He seems to be someone who both enjoys
the rubbing and the being rubbed against.
-I love rubbing him. It's so fun. He's rubbable.
-So, you obviously, before No Doubt's time,
you had been doing music forever.
So you were never in a situation where you had to audition
for anyone the way "The Voice" singers do.
-That's true. I always think about that.
I did audition to be a cheerleader in high school,
and I didn't make it. -You didn't? Really?
-Didn't even make the first --
I can't believe they even let me try out.
I tried out. I really just wanted to wear the outfit.
-Sure. -That was the whole thing.
So, I kind of made up for it.
-Did you know while you were auditioning,
"This isn't going well"?
-I knew that I wasn't able to do choreography like that.
I couldn't remember. Remember, we just talked about that?
-Yeah. -So, I had a hard time
remembering the moves, and -- but yeah --
-It did work out. You found a different way into the outfit.
-I got the outfit. -In the "Hollaback" video.
Do you think that the cheerleading coach saw this
and was like, "You went around --
you didn't go through proper channels!"
-I don't even know. I do think about that.
I wonder who that person was, and if they were like,
"Wow, she cheated her way to the top."
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-But now you're also -- Marching band costume as well.
-Yes. -Were you in marching band?
-I was. I was a band geek.
And I fake-played the piccolo for a long time.
-Okay, so, what do you mean by fake played?
-Well, I'm not a liar.
But I definitely couldn't really --
-A lot of the time you spend telling us what you're not.
-I cheated. [ Laughter ]
-You've also told us what you are.
-Okay, well, I did -- -You cheated?
-I just never could get the hang of playing that instrument.
-And they just never noticed you were fake playing?
-There's a lot of people in the band, right?
And I was a piccolo! -Do you feel like this is
a problem across marching bands across America,
that there are just a lot of piccolo players
who are just faking it? -I hope not.
-I hope not. -I hope not.
I had a lot of fun doing that, though. That was incredible.
I wanted to be the dancer, but I was in a band uniform.
-Gotcha. Well, that's a good way to start.
'Cause there is some -- I mean, I'm not being insincere.
There is a lot of choreography for marching bands as well.
-It's a lot of choreography. -Yeah.
-Yeah, and I cannot dance.
People think that I can dance, but I just fake that as well.
-Well, you're very good at all of this.
-I'm very sneaky, yeah.
-Are you really married to Blake Shelton?
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Because it looks that way on TV.
-This is a fake diamond ring.
-I got more to ask you. We'll be right back with Gwen Stefani.